Ford v. State

When the transcript in this case was presented to one of the judges of this court for the allowance of-an appeal, though there was attached to it the certificate of the clerk of the court below, that it was a full, true and complete transcript of the record, etc.; yet it contained no entry shoyring the impanneling of the grand jury, nor any entry by which it was made to appear that the indictment was returned in1o court by the grand jury.

In. favor of human life, an appeal was allowed, and in furtherance of public justice, in accordance with the practice of the court, a certiorari was awarded,…